I've never heard of Luke of Simferopol and Maria Skobtsev. But, I just checked my first volume of the Gulag and Mother Mariya was mentioned by Alexandr. She was on the Solovetsky Islands.
Elder Isidore - Salt of the Earth
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joasia
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Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (Ps. 50)
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Thank you Joanna,
I will have to pick up a copy as soon as possible. This is the kind of book that is so powerful for building us up and strengthening us in this spiritually dangerous hour.
Symeon
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Update: I just completed the order online. I am sure that I will really enjoy and benefit from this book based on the quotes you provided. Thanks again.
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I like the style this book is written in and the Elder was definitely a holy and loving man. I would have loved to have witnessed his concoctions he ate for food. Fr. Florensky did teach sophiology in the Pillar and Foundation of Truth, but he also died a martyr. So I think he probably is a new martyr.
"The spouse of Christ cannot be adulterous, she is uncorrupted and pure, She knows one home; she guards with chaste modesty the sanctity of one couch. She keeps us for God. She appoints the sons whom she has born for the Kingdom. Whoever is separated from the Church and is joined to an adulteress is separated from the promises of the Church; nor can he who forsakes the Church of Christ attain to the rewards of Christ."
--St. Cyprian of Carthage, On The Unity of the Church (Chapter 6, ANF,V:423),
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Good reminder : I still have not pulled it out of the passenger seat of my car yet to start reading !
My car is covered from head to foot with TARPS, which seem to be my middle name these wintery days!,
so I can't even open the door so easily.
God Willing in the New Civil Year, I will enjoy reading this, now that all of you are heartily recommending it.
Icxpion, have you started it yet yourself ?
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OK, maybe I'll try to start it, too, then, and we can compare notes.
I love books about real Elders !